He cursed Eve to marital subservience and the pangs of childbirth. He cursed the very ground, condemning Adam to a life of toil and sorrow: “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread ...

God “curses” Eve for her misdeed, using ominous words that seem to doom her to live subordinately to Adam. In the phrasing ... so that the intent of the “curse” seems different.

The politician slammed the story of Adam and Eve being tempted by the “forbidden ... When he was a presidential candidate, Duterte cursed the pope for causing traffic jams when he visited ...

If, as many believe, Adam and Eve were deposited in the Land of Israel when they got booted out of the Garden of Eden — and Eve was cursed with the pain of childbearing — then it would ...